Her faultless sense of design immediately engages the reader: tidy white circles dot the gray backgrounds of her collages cut-paper birds show off their hand-painted wings and an offscreen narrator exhibits a sackful of ``good stuff''-birdseed, peanuts, corn kernels, etc.-accumulated in anticipation of the ``perfect snowball day.'' Soon the narrator and invisible colleagues have constructed a whole family of snow people and their pets. Only an artist as gifted as Ehlert (Nuts to You!) could take so well-worn a topic as building a snowman and make it as fresh as-well, new-fallen snow. Children will love poring over Lois Ehlert's bold, funny illustrations and identifying the common (and not so common) objects she uses to decorate her snowy family. With a few found objectslike buttons and fabric and seedsand a little imagination, you can create a whole family out of snow. Pull on your mittens and head outside for a snowball day.
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